282 Essay on the Avian Order of Architecture, [Sept. 



" This Prince, equal to the king of gods (Indra), in conjunction 

 with her (his wife Sugandha) erected in that excellent town (Sankara- 

 pura) temples to Sankara gauresa and to Sughandesa." 



The two temples are rather less than half a mile apart, the smaller 

 one being situated to the S. E. of the larger, as is likewise the case 

 with the two temples at Avantipura. As there is no other clue for our 

 guidance than difference of size and decoration, I have supposed that 

 the larger temple, which is highly decorated, was built by the king in 

 his own name, and that the smaller one, which is plain, was erected in 

 the queen's name, and I have thus distinguished them in Plate XX. 



Temple of Sugandheswara. 



I. — The ground-plan of this temple is similar to that of Avanti- 

 swami. The porticos, however, have a much greater projection, and their 

 recesses are formed into separate chambers, 6 feet by 4 feet, which 

 most probably once contained linga ' for I found the pedestals of three 

 of those emblems, which had been converted into Mahomedan tombs, 

 within fifty paces of the temple itself. These porches were all sur- 

 mounted by pediments of high pitch, covering trefoiled arches, which 

 rested upon independent pilasters, as in the Marttand temple. The 

 roof was, no doubt, pyramidal, and the total height of the building, 

 estimated at twice its breadth, must have been 48 feet. The inner 

 chamber is a square of 12 feet 7 inches, and- is quite plain. 



2. — I am unable to say whether this temple was surrounded by a 

 pillared quadrangle or not ; as I could not find a single trace of a 

 column on any side. To the eastward, however, in front of the entrance 

 porch of the temple, and at 68 feet distance, there is part of a large 

 door-way or gate-way, and of a wall of squared stones. To the north- 

 ward and westward also, at 50 feet from the temple, there are shallow 

 trenches partially filled with stones. These I believe to indicate the 

 lines of the surrounding quadrangle, which must have been completely 

 carried away down to the very bottom of its foundation, as there is 

 nothing now remaining but a trench to mark where it once stood. It 

 is curious that the fate of these Pathan temples should have been 

 exactly the reverse of that of the Avantipura temples. The latter were 

 entirely overthrown, while their surrounding walls have escaped ; in the 

 one almost entirely, in the other partially. The former temples, on the 



